Aircraft Trivia Quiz

Greg;

 You got it.

Gabby flew a P-36 on Dec. 7, then didn't fly combat again until he flew with the PAF (316) flying some Rodeo's over France in a Spit IXc. Afterwards he joined the 56th FG with the T-bolts.

All yours Greg

Mike T.

OK, so it is my turn. First I had to study the rules, since I just jumped into it today .

This is an emblem of a famous "Kosciuszko Squadron"

Name the first Squadron Leader of "Kosciuszko Squadron" , his nationality and what aircraft did he fly.

edit:  - first aircraft type "Kosciuszko Squadron" was equiped with 

It is almost true but I am going to accept it.

In fact Cooper was the initiator and creator of "Kosciuszko Squadron" however he was not a Leader of this Squadron.

On October 18, 1919 Lt. Ludomil Rayski gave command of the unit to Maj. Cedric Faunt-LeRoy. This is a day when "KOsciuszko Squadron" was officially born.

Merian Cooper was a captain at that time and he became deputy commander.

Squadron was equipted with Austrian made Albatros D.III (oef) 253

later during the war with Soviets Squadron received Ansaldo Balillas

The Squadron emblem was designed by: Lt. Elliott Chess

This war 1919-1921 stopped communism expansion to the West for 20 years 

Its your turn ARTABR 

Presumably the aircraft you have in mind is the XB-70. About the only really special thing it did in 1964, apart from fly for the first time, was to become the first aircraft to make use of compression lift in sustained supersonic flight.

Am I close?

Cheers,

Chris.

Sounds a bit like the Caspian Sea Monster. It used ground effect to "fly".

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/22/caspian_sea_monster/

How about the Ryan XV-5 Vertijet? First flight May 1964, and, if you stretch a pont, six 'jet' engines - two turbojets for normal flight, and to drive the lift fans. Four more 'puffer' jets in the nose, tail, and wing tips for roll, pitch and yaw control while in fan mode.

It was the first jet-powered lift-fan aircraft. Doesn't satisfy the 'tounge-twisting name' criterion, though.

The only other aircraft I can thnk of that might fit the spec was the LTV XC-142 - first STOVL passenger/ cargo plane, if you don't count convertiplanes such as the Rotodyne. This also had its first flight in 1964. But didn't it only have four engines?

Cheers,

Chris.

chris hall wrote:

How about the Ryan XV-5 Vertijet? First flight May 1964, and, if you stretch a pont, six 'jet' engines - two turbojets for normal flight, and to drive the lift fans. Four more 'puffer' jets in the nose, tail, and wing tips for roll, pitch and yaw control while in fan mode. It was the first jet-powered lift-fan aircraft. Doesn't satisfy the 'tounge-twisting name' criterion, though. The only other aircraft I can thnk of that might fit the spec was the LTV XC-142 - first STOVL passenger/ cargo plane, if you don't count convertiplanes such as the Rotodyne. This also had its first flight in 1964. But didn't it only have four engines? Cheers, Chris.

Ok, Art, how about the XC-142's immediate predecessor, the Hiller X-18? Three engines (one for pitch/ yaw control in prop-borne flight), but each had two jet exhausts, for a total of six. Can't see that it did anything special in 1964, though.

Cheers,

Chris.

Kit builder wrote:

Would it be the EWR VJ101C, built by Entwicklungsring Sud?

Hi KB!

Not that many British tailwheel undercarriage jet aircraft with crescent wings, so that would have to be the Handley Page HP.88:

The three designations were Handley Page H.P.88, Supermarine Type 521 and Blackburn YB.2. It was essentially a proof of concept vehicle for the Handley Page Victor.

Cheers,

Chris. 

Thanks, KB!

OK, a simple one. Which jet aircraft has/ had the most engines? For clarification, I'm thinking about aircraft that made it to at least the prototype stage, not some design sketch or Luft'46 nonsense, and by engine I mean a turbojet or turbofan, independent of all the aircraft's other engines.

And by aircraft, I mean a piloted vehicle capable of sustained, controlled, aerodynamic flight, so things like hovercraft and ekranoplans don't count. Nor do RPVs.

Edit - I've just thought - there are two possible answers to this question. I'll take either. Bonus points if you get both.

Cheers,

Chris.

Well, the most jet engines that I can think were ever fitted to an aircraft is eight.  That would mean the two possible answers that I'm aware of would be the B-52 (obviously) and the not-so-well-known YB-60, basically the jet powered version of the B-36.

The only plane I know of with more is the Caspian Sea Monster with 10, but...... yeah.  Not really a plane, is it?

Caspian Sea Monster doesn't count, and both the aircraft I'm thinking of mounted more than eight jet engines...at least on take-off, and in one case, on landing as well.

Cheers,

Chris.

Ah, tough one, Chris!  How about the Saunders Roe Princes... IIRC, it had 10 turboprops of some sort or another...

And just for the fun of it, though they are not jets, check out the Bel Geddes #4!

http://home.att.net/~dannysoar/BelGeddes.htm

I have no idea what the other plane is...maybe something with JATOs? 

Princess doesn't count, Shark; I said turbojets or turbofans, remember. The B-52 was very, very, close - as was JATO, for one of the answers. And the other's much smaller than you might be thinking...

And yes, the Geddes flying ship is a very fine machine. I've always said that one day I'll make a model of it....

Cheers,

Chris.

If JATO packs are considered, then I DID read something about how several B-47s had 18 built-in JATO units, which would theoretically put the jet total at 24.

However, there was another mention of several B-47s using a jettisonable rack with 33 JATO units, bringing the total to 39.

But, if JATO units DON'T count, then I'm barking up the wrong tree.

Wrong tracks, I'm afraid, Lucien. the JATO packs were solid fuel rockets, not jet engines.

A further hint. Considering the larger of the two aircraft I'm thinking about, if it had ever flown a for-real strike mission in the configuration which gave it so many engines, and had managed to return base, it would have done so with two fewer engines.

Cheers,

Chris.